This is my personal and professional website.  AutoMeasure was the name of my custom automated systems business that operated from 1997 to 2008.

Joe Czapski
Principal Test Engineer
Aegis Lightwave
78A Olympia Ave
Woburn MA 01872

jczapskiaegislightwavecom
781-904-4000 x211

Professional

Aegis Lightwave is where I work now.  Our products are based on a unique microscopic window that lets through a wavelength of light selected by an electrical control signal.

Resume in PDF format.

Projects Completed during the 12 years that I was in the custom automated systems business at Bloomy Controls and AutoMeasure.

IEEE – Senior Member since 2000, Member since 1991.  Instrumentation & Measurement Society member and volunteer.  Boston Consultants Network former member and volunteer.

LabVIEW and NI measurement & automation products are the main tools I've used in my work for 20 years, including measurement boards and modules, signal generation hardware, motion control, and image processing.

Perl-CGI-HTML-MySQL-Komodo is the toolset I use to make dynamic websites.

Mathcad is my favorite tool besides LabVIEW for mathematical analysis and simulation.

Pulse Response Examiner software I wrote in LabVIEW that you can download and may find useful.

Case Study on the NI website describing one of my LabVIEW applications.

Useful Features of Automated Test Systems in the R&D Laboratory – a conference paper.

Grounding and Noise Coupling Issues in Automated Measurement Systems – an article.

Interests

Bicycling with my family.

Hiking and critter finding with my family.

Tennis with my kids.

Boardgames – generally in the 'German designer strategy' category.

Interactive Fiction whose predecessor was the text adventure games of the 70s and 80s.

Tournament Design

Experiment Design

Books I read and liked

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark

No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Burmese Days by George Orwell

Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Carnet De Voyage (Travel Journal) by Craig Thompson

Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders by Alan Deutschman

For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner

Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood by Teri Garr

The Demon Haunted World: Science as as Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

The Ayn Rand Reader by Ayn Rand

Red Planet by Robert Heinlein

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Radio Shows I listened to and liked

My wife and I listen to comedy shows on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7.  Some of our favorites are:

Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better

Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking

That Mitchell and Webb Sound

The Museum of Everything

Saturday Night Fry (but instead watch the TV show it became, A Bit of Fry and Laurie)

The Hudson and Pepperdine Show

Miranda Hart's House Party and Miranda Hart's Joke Shop

People Like Us

Clare in the Community

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